I am an evil giraffe. Who no longer blogs about politics.

There’s no article up on them yet, but the raw numbers are available here.

May 2010

April 2010

Issue

Dem

GOP

Diff

Dem

GOP

Diff

Shift

Health Care

41%

48%

(7)

41%

48%

(7)

–

Education

40%

43%

(3)

43%

39%

4

(7)

Social Security

40%

42%

(2)

40%

42%

(2)

–

Abortion

40%

42%

(2)

40%

42%

(2)

–

Economy

39%

48%

(9)

39%

43%

(4)

(5)

Taxes

36%

51%

(15)

36%

51%

(15)

–

Iraq

36%

45%

(9)

41%

44%

(3)

(6)

Nat’l Security

34%

51%

(17)

40%

42%

(2)

(15)

Gov’t Ethics

33%

29%

4

34%

30%

4

–

Immigration

32%

47%

(15)

38%

41%

(3)

(12)

Short version: 9 out of 10, and public trust in the Democrats to craft a proper immigration policy went through the floor.

Not precisely one of the Democrats’ better months; immigration wasn’t even the absolutely worse shift for them. Immigration is still of most interest here: it looks like the Democrats are on track to lose the illegal immigration debate the same way that they’ve lost the health care one – and, yes, that still seems weird to type out. Also: it would appear that, once again, ‘government ethics’ is one of those things that require constant Democratic scandals to move the needle. I think that, all things considered, I can more or less live with that for right now; which is good, because there doesn’t seem to be much of an alternative.